Em

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EM, Em or em may refer to:

[edit] Codes

• EM, the IATA airline designator for Aero Benin, Republic of Benin
• EM, the IATA airline designator for Empire Airlines, a charter and cargo airline based in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA
• EM, the RIC for the 1-month LIBOR futures contracts at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange

[edit] Computing

• <em>, the HTML tag for emphasis
• End of Medium (^Y), an ISO C0 control code

[edit] Organizations

• EM Microelectronics (see), a Swiss semiconductor manufacturer specialized in the design and production of ultra-low-power integrated circuits
• European Movement, an international lobbying association that coordinates the efforts of associations and private individuals desiring to work towards the construction of a united Europe

[edit] Science

[edit] Biology

• Effective microorganisms, a brand name for a series of products intended to improve soil quality and plant growth by a (yet scientifically unconfirmed) method of using a mixture of microorganisms

[edit] Linguistics

• Em, the name of the thirteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet, M, in English and other languages
  • Em (М), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet that directly corresponds to the Latin alphabet letter “M” and is pronounced similarly
• Em, a digraph in Portuguese
• Em, the third-person plural objective Spivak pronoun

[edit] Mathematics

• Expectation-maximization algorithm, in statistics — an algorithm used for finding maximum likelihood estimates of parameters in probabilistic models, where the model depends on unobserved latent variables

[edit] Medicine

• Emergency medicine, a speciality of medicine that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of acute illnesses and injuries that require immediate medical attention
• Erythema multiforme, a skin condition that usually follows an antecedent infection or drug exposure

[edit] Physics

• Electromagnetism:
  • a fundamental physical force that is responsible for interactions between charged particles
  • magnetism developed by an electrical current (such as in an electromagnet)

[edit] Technology

• Electromigration, the transport of conducting solid material caused by electric current through it; a common issue in integrated circuits design
• Electron microscope, a type of microscope that uses electrons to “illuminate” a specimen and create an enlarged image
• Electron multiplier, a vacuum-tube structure that multiplies incident charges by means of secondary emission
• Exametre or exameter (Em), an SI unit of length equal to 10¹⁸ metres

[edit] Typography & orthography

• em, a unit of measurement used in typography and web design — 1 em equals the width of the “m” character of the current font
  • em dash (—), a dash which is one em wide
  • em space ( ), a space which is one em wide.

[edit] Music

• E major (EM) and E minor (Em), musical scales
• Electronic music, music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production
• Eminem (a.k.a Slim Shady), an American rapper

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Em is a common short form of some given names, e.g. Emma, Emily, Emmett, Emmanuel, Emerson and others
• Em, a comic strip by Maria Smedstad featured daily in thelondonpaper
• EM gauge, a variant of 1:76 scale used in model railways
• Emergency management, a discipline that studies dealing with and avoiding risks
• Emerging markets, a term used to describe a nation's social, or business activity in the process of rapid industrialization
• Environmental management, the management of interaction by the modern human societies with, and impact upon the environment
• ERASMUS Mundus, a students exchange program, the international counterpart of the ERASMUS programme
• Extreme Makeover, a former television program from ABC in which individuals volunteer to receive an extensive makeover in Hollywood

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